Time to share what a wonderful experience this semester’s e-twinning project with Seth Dickens at Martino Martini has been, and in particular the final culminating technological project, the Skype calls.
Over the semester, as mentioned in a previous post, Seth and I introduced our students to Twitter to give them an opportunity to interact and engage [...]
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4 May 2009
I’m still here
Finding it difficult to juggle end of term and many other “ends” right now so I haven’t blogged in about a month!
I will be blogging soon because Seth Dickens and I have a virtual meet-up planned for our students on Thursday morning. Looking so forward to it because after a good number of [...]
21 Jan 2009
word(le) cloud
I finally decided to create my own twitter wordle…words have great significance, even when taken out of context, wouldn’t you agree? Here is what is important to me evidently
14 Jan 2009
Arriverderci AP Italian?
Just 4 years into it…and now this!
In the fall, I had published an article on Italian teacher training in Foreign Language Annals (the journal for the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages). Shortly before its publication, the editor had asked me to comment on the then recent decision of the College Board to [...]
17 Dec 2008
Pageflakes as a LMS
I had the opportunity over the last semester to use Pageflakes as a learning management system for my intermediate Italian course. The basis of this undertaking was the following, as prepared by @kahnp:
This study proposes a project to significantly enhance student success in a college intermediate Italian course by using new technologies and multimedia that [...]
16 Sep 2008
Twitter in the Foreign Language Classroom – my investigation
Another update: paper has been removed as it is under revisions as you read this. Will share once again in the near future…
update: if you would like to read the manuscript, it is password protected. Thanks for the head’s up Luke.
I’ll keep this post brief and to the point, as I should be concentrating on [...]